Re: Castaway

[Chris Williams <chrisw@wwa.com>]

Karen Newcombe <kln@staralliance.com> wrote


>>According to the Gaffaweb Dictionary at
>>http://www.gryphon.com/gaffa/diction/  "Castaway" is a 1987 film directed
>>by Nicholas Roeg, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.  It's based upon
>>the autobiographical book "Castaway" by Lucy Irvine, in which a middle-aged
>>man places an advertisement in a London paper for a woman (Irvine herself)
>>to spend a year with him on a desert island.

>As someone pointed out last year, Lucy Irvine grew up on the island where
>"The Wicker Man" was filmed, starring Lindsay Kemp!

   That was me, and it's a bit more interesting than that. Lucy Irvine's
father is the Innkeeper on Summerisle. Thus Lucy is the "Innkeeper's
Daughter". Anyone who's seen The Wicker Man knows what that means.